American Music Club
A cult hero of the US indie scene, Mark Eitzel's melancholy songwriting and love
of rootsy country rock made American Music Club natural outsiders as a wave of
alternative bands such as REM, Flaming Lips and The Lemonheads started to break
through in the mid 1980s. Born into a military family, Eitzel lived in Taiwan,
Britain and Ohio and played in punk bands before moving to San Francisco in 1982
to start AMC with guitarist Vudi and bassist Danny Pearson in 1982. Adopting the
persona of a doomed romantic, hard-drinking crooner, Eitzel received critical
acclaim for early albums Th...
